| CPC H04W 72/1268 (2013.01) [H04L 1/08 (2013.01); H04L 1/1812 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02)] | 20 Claims | 

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               1. A discontinuous reception (DRX) method, comprising: 
            running, by a terminal device, a DRX uplink retransmission timer corresponding to an uplink Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process used for transmitting uplink data, in one of following cases: after receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) indicating scheduling of transmission of the uplink data, after sending a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) carrying the uplink data, and after receiving the PDCCH indicating scheduling of transmission of the uplink data and after sending the PUSCH carrying the uplink data, in a case that an HARQ function of the uplink HARQ process is in a disabled state. 
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